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instauration

American  
[in-staw-rey-shuhn] / ˌɪn stɔˈreɪ ʃən /

noun

  1. renewal; restoration; renovation; repair.

  2. Obsolete. an act of instituting something; establishment.

instauration British  
/ ˌɪnstɔːˈreɪʃən /

noun

  1. rare restoration or renewal

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Other Word Forms

  • instaurator noun

Etymology

Origin of instauration

First recorded in 1595–1605; from Latin instaurātiōn- (stem of instaurātiō ) “a renewing, repeating”; in- 2, store, -ation

Example Sentences

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Many Jesuits see an instauration of Ignatian spirit.

From Time Magazine Archive

Some curious instauration of the '50s seemed to be at work in the psychology of 1972, almost a conscious revolt against the extravagant, Halloween '60s.

From Time Magazine Archive

Its aim was to realise in political institutions that great instauration of which Bacon dreamed in the world of intelligence.

From Milton by Pattison, Mark

The instauration of general anaesthesia came from experiments made on man alone.

From An Ethical Problem Or, Sidelights upon Scientific Experimentation on Man and Animals by Leffingwell, Albert

We aimed at nothing less than to speak of the instauration of spirit, and its incarnation in a beautiful form.

From Transcendentalism in New England A History by Frothingham, Octavius Brooks

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